Home >> Sports & Recreation >>Cricket >>The Story of Cricket >> | | Topics | The Story of Cricket | | | | | The Story of Cricket Cricket grew out of the many stick-and-ball games played in England 500 years ago‚ under a variety of different rules. The word ’bat’ is an old English word that simply means stick or club. By the seventeenth century‚ cricket had evolved enough to be recognizable as a distinct game and it was popular enough for its fans to
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Take me out to the Ball Game! From the sandlot to stadiums seating over fifty thousand people‚ the game of baseball has provided people of all ages with a common foundation; a sport we can all a part of the American culture. Though its concept sounds simple‚ a game involving a ball and a bat‚ millions of people all over the world have sought involvement in it by either playing at some level‚ or just sitting back and watching a game. With professional baseball attracting more and more fans each
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Test Cricket Big-time cricket all looks so rosy. It is at the start of a $1.1 billion (£550m) television rights deal for international tournaments‚ which should keep the wolf from the door until 2015.(ICC) It is weeks away from the quite astonishingly lucrative Indian Premier League(IPL)‚ a Twenty20 competition from which most of the leading cricketers in the world will reap rewards beyond their dreams and avarice. Money has done a lot of talking. Couldn’t be better? Don’t believe it. The game is
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|I|INTRODUCTION | |.| | Cricket‚ Rules of‚ an 11-a-side bat-and-ball field game the object of which is to score more runs than one’s opponents. Variants include indoor cricket‚ 6-a-side‚ and single wicket for which different rules apply. The laws are more copious and more complex than for any other game. Apart from the laws there is an inherent complexity in the possibilities of the game and how it is played‚ in its remarkable range of techniques and skills
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Cricket‚ also called the Gentleman’s game‚ is a bat-and-ball team sport that is first documented as being played in southern England in the 16th century. The sport’s earliest definite mention was in a 1598 court case which referred to a sport called cricket being played by boys at the Royal Grammar School‚ Guildford around 1550. It is believed that it was originally a children’s game but references around 1610‚ indicate that adults had started playing it and the earliest reference to inter-parish
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“The Cricket Match” Samuel Selvon’s short story‚ “The Cricket Match” explores the subtle racial tensions amongst West Indian immigrants living in England whilst working with English counterparts. Selvon sets his narrative in a tyre factory in Chiswick‚ England. Most likely‚ the timeline in which this story occurs is somewhere in the mid 1950’s when England were still colonists of most of the English speaking Caribbean islands. The main idea behind Selvon’s tale lies with Algernon the protagonist
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IMPACT OF TOURISM IN THE MONFORT BAT SANCTUARY‚ ISLAND GARDEN CITY OF SAMAL An Undergraduate Research Presented to Prof. Zeny Egut And Davao Doctors College (Biology Dept.) In Partial Fulfilment Of the requirements in Biology101 Jan Lynuel C. Sedayao Regie V. Petin Czar Vincent L. Rojoca James Mar S. Moises Kaissar B. Latayada September 2012 Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION Background of the Study Bats are one of the most misunderstood creatures in the world. They are often ridiculed
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A Straight Bat Parents often have ideal ways they want their children to be; sometimes they don’t give them any freedom to choose. “A Straight Bat”‚ written by Roger Holt‚ is a short story about George who wants his son to become a great cricket player just like him even though his son‚ Timothy‚ doesn’t want to and wants to play the violin. This reading will be related to the dominant reading where readers sympathise with the son and see the father as an overbearing and oppressive man. This reading
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Descriptive Writing Cricket Match It had been long and successful cricket season for the U12 Oxfordshire cricket team and the final game of the season was approaching fast. It was a cup final against Middlesex and the ground that had been selected was Lords. How fantastic was that! The coach journey seemed to take forever but we finally arrived in readiness for what we knew was going to be an extremely tense and competitive game. The coach atmosphere had been electric; we were all excited‚
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Cricket-crazy Indians accept heroes in the field as their role models. They spend hours in front of TV to relish cricket match and taste bat and ball on wayside or here and there‚ wherever possible. Though‚ there have been many controversies yet the popularity of cricket has remained intact. Cricket matches are still something like grand feasts to eyes and mind. We cannot separate ourselves from cricket. Sports were earlier linked to good health because love for a game clearly means playing that
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